 | Twelfth annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1941-42 |  |
Foreign Papers
Andenach, Germany. The Watch on the Rhine, 1919, Mar. 9. Gift of
estate of Philip Alexander Bruce.
Manchester, Eng. Guardian, 1941, May-Dec. Three rolls of microfilm,
Harvard University.
Paris, France. The Stars and Stripes, 1918, Feb. 22, Mar. 15, 22, 29,
Apr. 5, 17, 26, May 10. Gift of Mrs. Archibald Bolling Shepperson.
Le Temps, 1938-1940. Four rolls of microfilm, Harvard University.
Rome, Italy. Il Giornale d'Italia, 1938-1940. Four rolls of microfilm, Harvard
University.
OVERSEER'S ACCOUNTS, ORANGE COUNTY, VA. 17441757.
72 pp. Microfilm of deposit.
These accounts were recorded by several overseers who kept store for
a proprietor believed to be James Madison, Sr. Benjamin Winn kept the
accounts until 1745, Jeremiah White in 1747-1748, and Francis Dabney
in 1750. Among the tenants are Thomas Dabney, V. Brockmann, and
Jeremiah White. The overseers kept the records of the owner's corn
and tobacco crops, and the sales of goods from the store, chiefly gunpowder,
shoes, needles, groceries, fiddlestrings, brandy, china, and hardware.
Among those having substantial accounts with the store are:
James Barbour; William Brockmann; John Buford; Charles Blunt; James
Bulckley; John Busby; Thomas Chew; John Cocke; Francis Conway;
Henry Fry; Mrs. Francis and William Francis Madison; John Nicholas;
Erasmus Taylor; James Walker; John Willis; and Capt. Richard Winslow.
No. 1457.
PILSEN FAMILY. 1792 (1819)-1880. 432 items. Purchase.
Business, college, and personal papers chiefly belonging to John Pilsen
of Albemarle County, Va., and his brother, Matthew, of Augusta County,
Bills; receipts; land grants; administrator's papers; lawsuit over a mill;
Revolutionary pensions; records of the overseers of the poor; copy of
landgrant to Thomas Walker of Albemarle, 1772; farm implements; list of
subscribers to Mountain Plain [Presbyterian] meeting house, 1822; letter
on life in Athens, Tenn., March, 1824; inventory of estate of Richard
Wallace; list of subscribers to E. A. Philip's school at Christian Creek,
1848; report cards from Augusta Female Academy for Elizabeth and
Martha Pilsen; road building; tax bills; series of letters on the Howardsville
and Rockfish Turnpike Co. Among the chief correspondents are:
James H. Bailey; Philip P. Barbour; James Jr., Joel, and John Black;
James Brooks; Francis and John Browning; William Cabell; Edward
Carter; J. Churchman; Oliver Cleaveland; J. Coffman; John Doake; Samuel
Finley; Thomas Fitzpatrick; Alexander C. and Bernard Franklin;
Robert Gamble; Alexander Garrett; David Hays; Wallace Hudson;
Andrew and Matthew Hunter; Cornelius McFall; Jacob Moon; James
and Matthew Pilsen; William Ramsay; Joel Smith; Lucinda and William
Scott; Robert L. Slaughter; Alexander Trent; Thomas Walker; Michael,
Richard and Samuel Wallace; John Wilkerson; and Joel Yancey. No.
1326.
POE, EDGAR ALLEN (1809-1849), COLLECTION. 1831-1849. 78
items. Photostat and microfilm. Gift and purchase.
Chiefly letters to and from Poe and several published items. Five
letters, 1831-1845, to Joseph B. Boyd, Matthew Carey, William Duane
(2), and William Gwynn, from Pennsylvania Historical Society, No. 1400.
One letter, 1835, to Thomas White, from Poe Foundation, Richmond, Va.
No. 1464. Six letters, 1835-1849, to [Matthew?] Carey, Philip P. Cooke,
George W. Eveleth, Laughton Osborne, William Poe from N. Y. Public
Library, No. 1324. Thirty-five letters, 1835-1869, to Maria Clemm, George
Poe, Neilson Poe. Others about Poe addressed to Maria Clemm from
Gabriel Harrison, O. W. Holmes, Henry W. Longfellow, Sarah H. Whitman,
N. P. Willis, and others, from Enoch Pratt Free Library, No. 1307.
Two letters, 1836-1844, to Harrison Hale and Joel P. Sutherland, from
Haverford College, No. 1451. Five letters, 1839-1848, from William
Burton, Mrs. Ellet (2), John H. Hopkins, Jr., S[ocrates] Maupin from
Harvard College Library, No. 1324. One letter, July 4, 1841, to Frederick
W. Thomas, from New York Public Library, No. 1426. Letter, Sep. 18,
1841, to Lewis J. Cist, gift of Nelson F. Adkins, No. 1332. Letter, Nov.
26, 1841, to Frederick W. Thomas, from Dumbarton Oaks Research
Library, No. 1410. Two letters, 1841-1842, to Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney,
from Connecticut Historical Society, No. 1418. One article by Poe "Notes
on English Verse," from Pioneer, March, 1843, from Yale University
Library, No. 1437. Nine letters, 1841-1849, to Judge Robert T. Conrad,
George W. Eveleth, Horace Greeley, Susan Ingram, Annie Richmond, J.
Augusta Shea, Joseph E. Snodgrass, John R. Thompson, from the Morgan
Library, No. 1408. Two letters, 1843, to Peter D. Bernard and Miss Lucy
D. Henry, from the Virginia State Library, No. 1409. Two letters, 18431849,
Frederick W. Thomas to Robert Tyler, introducing Poe; from Georgia
Lippan to Rufus Griswold about Poe, from Boston Public Library, No.
1411. Letter, Nov. 27, 1847, to Mrs. S. A. Lewis, from Yale University
Library, No. 1297. Two letters, 1849, to Rufus W. Griswold, from the
University of Texas, No. 1392. Prospectus for The Stylus, a monthly
journal of general literature to be edited by Poe and published by Clarke
& Poe in Philadelphia, printed in the Philadelphia Saturday Museum
March 4, 1843, No. 1456. Poe's "Marginalia" in The United States Magazine
and Democratic Review, XIX, 30-32, gift of DeWolfe Miller, No.
1360. Copy of reprint of article by John W. Ostrom on two unpublished
Poe letters, 1836-1840, No. 1473. These have been added to other papers
previously acquired. (See Annual Report on Historical Collections . . .
XI, 43).
POLK FAMILY GENEALOGY. 1744-1938. 1 typescript. 15 pp.
Gift of William L. Porter.
Notes entitled "Descendants of Captain William Polk (1744-1835) of
Accomac Co., Va." No. 1217.
PRATT, MRS. HARRY ROGERS (1888- ). 1941-1942. ca. 175
items. Gift of Mrs. Pratt.
Typed manuscript drafts; galley proofs, correspondence with publishers,
Dodd Mead & Co., for two books published under the name of Agnes
Rothery, Washington Roundabout (New York, 1942), a guide to Washington,
D. C.; and Family Album (New York, 1942). Nos. 1366, 1388.
PRENTIS FAMILY. 1744-1825. 2 typescript volumes. Gift of
Robert Henning Webb.
Copies of papers of members of the Prentis and related families, of
Williamsburg, Suffolk, and the Eastern Shore of Virginia, dealing with
family and legal affairs; and a series of letters from David Meade, formerly
of Maycox, Prince George County, Va., dealing with his migration to
Lexington, Ky., and the development of his plantation, Chaumiere des
Prairies. In the first group the correspondence is from Carter Braxton to
Robert Prentis; Robert Carter to Joseph Prentis; John Tyler to Joseph
Prentis; Eliza Prentis to Joseph Prentis and others; James Monroe and
Joseph Prentis; Burwell Bassett to Joseph Prentis and Joseph Prentis, Jr.;
and John Wickham to Joseph Prentis. The series of letters from David
Meade are to John Driver, 1782-1796; Judge Joseph Prentis, 17961808;
Joseph Prentis, Jr.; and from David Meade, Jr., to Judge Joseph
Prentis and Joseph Prentis, Jr., 1801-1802; and Richard Meade to the
preceding, 1809-1832. No. 1452.
PUGH FAMILY. ca. 1830 (1865)-1900. ca. 3272 items. Gift
of W. S. Pugh.
Large collection of business papers of the Pughs who kept the store at
Madisonville, Charlotte County, Va. Includes store accounts and receipts,
crops and tobacco liens, insurance papers, land papers, business correspondence,
and papers dealing with the affairs of the many citizens for
whom the Pughs acted as agents and administrators. [Note, this collection
is now being processed and will be described in full in the next
annual report.] No. 1253.
RANDOLPH, THOMAS MANN (1768-1828). 1813-1822. 7 ALS.
Microfilm from Duke University. Purchase.
To Joseph C. Cabell on political, agricultural, educational and military
affairs. Militia officers, War of 1812, books on agriculture and gardening,
Randolph's views on teaching religion to young people. No. 1314.
RAUSCH, FREDERICH. 10 items. Gift of Archibald A. Hill.
Sound charts (placards) by Rausch and David Jones. Also musical
version of song "Summer is A-coming In," with two explanations. No.
1432.
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. [POLICE] GUARD RECORDS. 18341843.
1 MS. Daybook. Purchased for the McGregor Library.
Daily reports of robberies, runaway slaves, stolen goods and other
routine police matters, a valuable source of data on residents of the city,
crime, and police administration for the period. No. 1481.
RILEY, J. H. 1898-1901. 35 items, incl. 9 MS. notebooks, 1
photograph album, 18 maps, 1 scrapbook, 9 LS. Bequest.
Notes on oölogical and orinthological matters, field trips, catalogues of
collections of birds and bird eggs, and correspondence with other collectors.
Acknowledgments of gifts to the Smithsonian Institution, and to
the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Pictures of Puerto
Rico, maps of eastern coast states. Correspondence with Donald A.
Cohen of California over collecting problems. Letter from D. R. Hand,
consular agent at Bocas del Toro, Panama, on field trip in Central
America. No. 1406.
RIVES, WILLIAM CABELL (1793-1864). 1862, May 23. 1 ALS.
Purchase.
From Castle Hill to son Alfred on strategy and troop movements preceding
the Battle of Richmond. (For other Rives papers see, Archivist
Report . . . , VIII, 7.) No. 1273.
ROBINSON, BERTHA (d. 1941). 1876-1936. ca. 300 items. Purchase,
and gift of C. J. Carrier.
Business and personal papers of the editors of the Orange (Va.) Observer,
Robert Newton Robinson and Miss Robinson, including subscription
lists, advertising lists, correspondence with contributors. A series
of letters from James A. Robinson (1875-1881) from Oxford, N. C., where
he was editor and publisher of The Torchlight, "A spicy, humorous, North
Carolina weekly"; and from Winston, N. C., where he published The
Winston Leader, gives information on the history of journalism in that
state. Nine volumes of accounts and various lists of the Orange Observer.
Nos. 1222, 1295.
ROBINSON, MAGNUS L. 1894-1905. 13 ALS., 2 D. Gift of
Dr. Clarence S. Brigham, American Antiquarian Society.
Chiefly letters to Robinson, a Negro newspaper editor of Alexandria,
Va., from John M. Langston, a contributor. Record of transaction with
Taliaferro & Co. of Richmond, Va., 1867. No. 1499.
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA, COLLECTION. 1779-1889.
35 items. Purchase.
Legal papers, including two broadsides on cattle fairs; the Constitution
of the Central Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society (New Market,
1853); a bond of the New Rawley Springs Company, 1880; a free
Negro's certificate; papers dealing with schooling of orphans; lunacy
commissions; checks drawn on First National Bank of Harrisonburg by
prominent citizens, 1873-1874. Those chiefly concerned in the papers
are Robert and William Campbell; Daniel Cokely; Richard P. Fletcher;
Peachy Harrison; Stephen Harrodsberger; Joseph Hyden; Joseph H.
Jones; George W. Kemper. No. 1362.
SAGE, CAPT. AUGUSTUS B., U.S.A. 1862, Dec. 20. 1 ALS. Purchase.
From Newport News to Miss G. B. Sage in New York, describing
Norfolk during the Civil War and the theatre there. No. 1341.
SCRUGGS, PHILIP LIGHTFOOT. 1942. 1 typescript, 518 pp.
Gift of author.
Manuscript of historical novel dealing with Bacon's Rebellion, Man
Cannot Tell (Indianapolis, 1942). No. 1390.
SIVELY FAMILY. 1876-(1899)1917. ca. 100 items. Purchase.
Family correspondence, chiefly centered in Alleghany, Bath, and Highland
counties, Va. George L. Sively's activities as justice of the peace,
his dry goods business and farm rentals. Miss Sally Sively's correspondence
from Hollins Institute, and various matters at Augusta Classical
and Military Academy, Augusta Male Academy, Virginia Agricultural
and Mechanical College. Letters from members of the family in Alderson
and Barboursville, West Virginia, and Hazelton, Kansas, give some
picture of local conditions and describe the settlement of the Cherokee
Strip. Correspondents include: Samuel Carpenter, H. P. Cosby, M.
Figgot, S. L. Gibson, J. D. Hamilton, G. M. Handy, Benjamin Hull, A. F.
Laird, William M. McCallister, McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., O.
T. Rogers, Sidney Ruckman, E. B. Skeen, and S. L. Stephenson. No. 1277.
SMALL, H. L. 1910 - - -. 3 MSS. 32 geologic maps. Gift of Mrs.
H. L. Small.
Problems and lecture notes on metallurgy. No. 1910.
SMITH, DANIEL P. (1812- ?) 1861-1867. 31 ALS., 4 MS. vols.,
1 printed vol. Deposit.
To members of his family in Prattville, Ala., many of them written
while he was a prisoner at Camp Butler, Springfield, Ill.; four diaries
kept by Smith during the campaigns in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee,
describing army life, his capture, imprisonment, and exchange. Unbound
copy of his Company K, First Alabama Regiment, or Three Years
in the Confederate Service (Prattville, Ala., 1878), and six letters from
friends thanking him for copies of it. Some data on the Prayer Book
Homily Society, and letters of John L. Alexander; George L. and Eugene
A. Smith; and J. S. W. Stedman. No. 1319.
SMITHFIELD TURNPIKE CORPORATION RECORD. 1827,
Nov. 20. 1 item. Gift.
Share No. 245 of the Capital Stock of the corporation, made out to
Abigail Greene of Smithfield, Va., and signed by Truman Beckwith,
Treasurer. No. 1367.
STONE, J. L. 1937. 1 typescript, 64 pp. Gift of author.
"Plato: His Life and Educational Beliefs," with particular attention
given to philosophy and educational scheme as set forth in the Republic.
No. 1386.
STONE FAMILY. 1839-1865. 4 ALS. Gift of Charles W. Porter.
Miscellaneous personal letters found in books: Thomas Ritchie to
[William J. Stone?], n.d.; Thompson & Spalding to Maj. William B.
Stone, Nov. 30, 1839; J. G. Chapman to Miss M. G. Stone, May 27, 1864;
L. L. Stevenson, postmaster of Staunton, Va., to the Postmaster General,
Nov. 24, 1865. No. 1241.
TABB, J[OHN?] (1846-1921). 1867-1911. 2 MS. vols. Deposit.
Law note book kept by Tabb, of Gloucester County, Va., with later
notes by William Hodges Mann, Jr. No. 1351.
TAXATION DATA. 1920 - - - ca. 35 items, including 7 typescripts,
newspaper clippings, mimeographed sheets, broadsides.
Gift of T. R. Snavely.
State and national tax materials including reports of the School of
Public Affairs, University of Virginia, Round Table conducted in 1927
and 1928 by Mark Graves, New York State tax commissioner; records
from twentieth conference of National Council of State Legislatures
which met in Toronto, Canada, in 1927. Nos. 1466, 1485.
TAYLOE FAMILY. 1791-1834. 1 MS. vol. 147 pp. Microfilm of
deposit.
"Race, and Horse-Medicine-Book", with stud records of the Tayloe
family horses at Mt. Airy, Richmond County, Va. Issue of American
Stud Book for 1837 with signature of Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, June 1863.
No. 1333.
TAYLOR, CREED (1766-1836). 1791-1823. 416 items, including
33 ALS. by purchase, remainder gift of the late A. F. Howard,
through Mrs. F. H. Stuart.
Papers from Taylor's home, Needham, Cumberland County, Va., on
business, legal, personal, and political affairs. As a lawyer and judge,
Taylor was active in teaching law, and in all matters of concern to the
Republican party interests in the state and nation. His letters from
John Taylor of Caroline on Patrick Henry and James Madison in 1799,
on the Virginia-Kentucky boundary dispute of 1803, and on Taylor's
opposition to a Bank of Virginia and state banks, are valuable sources of
data on these matters. Other subjects include the division of Fincastle
County, Va., in 1799; trips to Warm Springs; recommendations of deserving
party members to important public offices; suit of the Commonwealth
of Virginia vs. William Waller Hening; proposed law school to be directed
by Taylor, and some of his correspondence with pupils and young lawyers;
long controversy with William B. Giles calling on him to deny
rumors he had reflected on Col. James Monroe involving publication in
newspapers of Taylor's refutation under name of "Gasca" which he
acknowledges to Giles, and Monroe's corrections on documents in controversy;
endorsement of medical treatise by Dr. Jennings, The Married
Lady's Companion, or Poor Man's Friend; full reflection of social life
between two large plantations, Bizarre and Needham with letters from
various members of the Randolph family; horse racing; violence of party
factions shown in riots at Fairfield Seminary in series of letters from
nephew, Samuel; and long correspondence with John Randolph of
Roanoke. Among the chief correspondents, or subjects of letters, are:
John Blanton; William H. Cabell; Daniel Call; Robert M. Chapman;
James Clapham; Ch. Clarke; William Cowan; William and Woodson
Daniel; Thomas T. Davis; Moses Fisk; James Fretwell; Thomas Gibson;
Richard Gordon; John W. Green; Philip Grymes; Edmund Harrison;
Benjamin Hatcher; Wal. Holcombe; Thomas Jefferson; Meriwether Jones;
Edwin Knickerbocker; William P. Law; Benjamin Watkins Leigh; Mr.
Michaux; James T. Morehead; Josiah Morton; Capt. William Murray;
William G. Pendleton; Robert Pleasant; Mrs. A., Col. Beverley, David
Meade, John of Roanoke, Judith, Martha, Richard J., Thomas, and
William Randolph; Col. [Thomas] Read; T. B. Robertson; Abraham Sandefur;
Eldred Simkins; Archibald Stuart; Samuel (brother of Creed), Samuel
Jr., and Thomas Taylor; R. N. Venable; Bushrod and Mrs. Mary
(Ball) Washington; Henry E. Watkins; Thomas Watson; John Wickham;
William Wirt; Seymour Wright; Gov. James Wood; Blake B. and John
Woodson. Nos. 1232, 1398.
TEMPERANCE SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA. 1834. 1 vol., 24 pp.
Deposit.
Seventh annual report of the Temperance Society of Virginia, with
the Proceedings of the annual meeting held at the Capitol in Richmond
on the 25th of February, 1834, and an address to all Temperance Societies
in the State. (Richmond, printed by J. MacFarlan, 1834.) No. 1260.
TERRY, CAPT. WILLIAM, C.S.A. 1861 Sep. 14. 1 ALS. Purchase.
From Camp Harman, near Centerville, Va., to Gov. John Letcher,
recommending promotion of Capt. Robertson. No. 1381.
THURMOND FAMILY. 1796-1878. 25 items, including 2 MS.
vols. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Thurston.
Business and personal papers of the Thurmond family of Nelson County,
Va., and of Lynchburg, Va., account books for 1840-1850 and 1875-1878;
tax receipts; administrators' records on Benjamin Thurmond's estate,
1848; records of lands in Amherst County, Lynchburg, and Nelson
County, Va.; letters from White Hall Academy; plot showing roads between
Scottsville, Charlottesville and Lynchburg, including the Staunton
turnpike; letter from T. J. Moore, 1862, from Charleston, Va., to Capt.
Thurmond on Confederate victory in battle of Fayette Court House;
letter from Fort Washington Barracks, 1899, from James F. Bailey,
U.S.A. The correspondents are, Mason Coles & Co.; Matthew Harris; Kate
Jones; Michael Morrison; Ralph A. Thomas; Ann E., John, John A.,
Martha P., Mary J. Thurmond; and Jesse Wood, Jr. No. 1490.
TWYMAN FAMILY. 1755-1846. 15 items. Gift of Miss Margaret
Huff.
Legal papers including deeds, surveyor's plats, sales of Negroes, legal
opinions on chancery disputes rendered by Philip P. Barbour and Thomas
Walker Gilmer on transactions of members of Twyman family. Most of
County, Ky. Among those chiefly concerned in the transactions are:
Nelson Barksdale; James Dudley; Anna and Charles G. Goodman; James
Hines; Burwell and Molly (Purvis) Levell; David Mills; James Purvis;
Abraham, George, and Joseph W. Twyman; David Watts; Isaac and
Nancy Wren. This supplements a previous deposit of Twyman Papers,
(See Archivist Report . . . . V, 6) No. 1261.
U. S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1940. ca. 150 items
mounted. Gift of John L. Cheney.
Campaign buttons used in the Roosevelt-Willkie contest. No. 1376.
U. S. WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION OF VIRGINIA.
VIRGINIA WRITERS' PROJECT. Three transfer cases of uncut
MSS. Deposit.
Manuscript notes, rough and revised drafts, etc., for two volumes, one
unpublished, The Negro in Virginia, the other, Virginia, a Guide to the
Old Dominion (New York, May, 1941.)
U. S. WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION OF VIRGINIA.
1936-1941. ca. 237 items, gift and deposit.
One file contains data on Hanover County, Va., from 1720, on homes,
mills, churches and taverns, with other historical records, guide books,
pamphlets, rough pencil sketches of old homes. No. 1500. Collection
of 37 mimeographed bulletins, 1936-1937 from State Office giving directions
on procedure and projects in the state. No. 1505.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, BUREAU OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION.
1934-1942. 64 items, incl. 26 broadsides, 11 charts, 4
typescripts, 2 maps, 1 photostat. Gift of the Bureau of Public
Administration.
Miscellaneous material on public administration, including national
political campaign propaganda (1940), data on taxation, notes on a
conference held at Farmington Country Club, Charlottesville, Va., on
the national security program (1935), and copies of the White Paper
issued by the Bureau, Jan.-March, 1942. No. 1339.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COLLECTION. 1857-1938. 190
items, MS. vols., blueprints, typescripts, etc. Gift, purchase,
deposit and transfer.
One document, n.d. [1845?], Sep. 10. From a group of alumni recommending
to Board of Visitors signed by John L. Caskie, John Alfred Jones, William
Ritchie, James A. Seddon, and J. B. Yonge, No. 1460. One autograph letter,
1857, Feb. 18, from Governor John B. Floyd, Abingdon, Va., to
George F. Holmes, congratulating him on appointment to professorship
of history. Purchase, No. 1488. Six miscellaneous papers, 1866-1900, including
letters from Socrates Maupin to William M. McCallister, April 12,
1866; letter from John B. Minor to McCallister, Sep. 9, 1867; monthly student
report, Nov. 1, 1868, with letter from his mother to McCallister on
verso; Eugene Davis to McCallister about election to Society of Alumni,
July 24, 1869; Law School broadside, 1866; James E. Phillips' broadside
appeal to the Virginia Legislature for payment for plumbing work on
University buildings, ca. 1900, No. 1245. Program of the final celebration
of the Jefferson Society, June 30, 1868, including a copy of Commencement
program of events, Ugly Society, Washington Society, dedication
of Thomas Jefferson statue and address by Hugh Blair Grigsby,
anniversary of the Y. M. C. A. Letter from Grace H. Dodge, n.d., to Mrs.
Murphy on building of Madison Hall. Gift of Rev. William K. Smith,
No. 1484. Key to Confederate cemetery at the University, 1 MS. vol., and
minutes of the Board of Visitors (rough draft) 1857-1861, 1 MS. vol., No.
1235. Seven diplomas and certificates awarded to John Beale Gordon
1875-1877. Gift of Armistead C. Gordon, Jr., No. 1221. One blueprint,
1897, "Cross-section thru Rotunda domes, showing original scheme for
inner dome and inner dome as constructed shown in dotted lines," with
correction made Dec. 1941. Gift of R. Guastavino Co., No. 1322. Blueprint
from 160 original drawings, 1897 et seq. of buildings designed and
erected by McKim, Mead & White, architects, including Proposed Law
Library, Mechanical Building, Rotunda, Physical Laboratory Building,
Academical Building, Refectory, Boiler House, Presidents' House, No. 1414.
Six letters and five items, 1900-1907, to Armistead C. Gordon on phases
of the University from Thomas H. Carter, Dr. J. A. C. Chandler, John
T. Harris, John B. Moon and Edwin A. Alderman; also prospectuses for
summer sessions, notices of books. Gift of Armistead C. Gordon, Jr., No.
1498. Paper, Between Convoys, No. 1, Dec. 1918, describing activities
of Base Hospital 41 in the United States and France. Gift of Mrs. Walter
Scott Chisolm, No. 1371. Copies of The Yellow Journal, College Topics
and other miscellaneous University publications, 1925-1935. Gift of
Jack Dalton. No. 1391. Three papers, 1928-1931, by Charles T. Cate, and
one chart by Cate and Joseph K. Roberts showing geological formations
in certain regions of Virginia between Rockfish Gap and Staunton. 4
items, gift of Dr. Roberts, No. 1294. Minutes of the Research Committee
of the University, including correspondence of faculty members, applications
for grants, etc., 1932-1938, 2 typed vols., deposit, No. 1238. Lectures,
1941-1942, on Founder's Day and other occasions such as alumni
luncheons, by Virginius Dabney, Pierre de Lanux, Dr. Ray Flannigan,
Dixon Ryan Fox, Dr. H. E. Jordan, President John L. Newcomb and
Lewis C. Williams. Also memorial to Dr. Paul B. Barringer. 7 typescripts,
gift of William Wranek, No. 1504.
VIRGINIA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. 1901-1902. 1
vol. Transfer.
Portraits and autographs of members of the Convention. No. 1369.
VIRGINIA LETTERS COLLECTION. 1816-1855. 16 ALS. Microfilm
of deposit.
A collection including letters of Dabney Carr to Dabney Minor, of
George Tucker of the University of Virginia to Carey & Hart for an
atlas, A. C. Finley from Sweet Springs on life there, others from the
neighborhood of Charlottesville and Scottsville, Va., on University affairs,
recruiting for the Mexican War, land transactions, life at the Virginia
springs, land claims in Illinois, and book orders. Among the chief
correspondents are: Abel, Bibb & Fry; Thomas J. Boyd; E. Boyden;
Jacob T. Caldwell; W. H. Campbell; Carey & Hart; Cornelius & Co.;
Farish, Jones & Randolph; A. C. and Mrs. Ruth Finley; William L. Goggin;
William F. Gooch; Shelton Leake; William W. Minor; Matthew Pillson;
D. Reamer; Hugh W. Sheffey; R. R. Stringfellow; Robert Tinsley; Dr. A.
J. Walker; Rice W. Wood; Yancey & Son & Bro. No. 1317.
WASHBURN, E. B. 1874, June 17. Microfilm of deposit.
To John L. Winston describing scene of surrender of General Robert
E. Lee at Appomattox, and subsequent events. No. 1487.
WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799). 1775-1783. 1 facsimile
vol. Gift of Wilbur P. Morgan.
Washington's accounts with the United States, showing balance due
him, July 1, 1783, £16311.17.1. No. 1370.
WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799) 1798, Oct. 5. 1 ALS. Deposit.
To Landon Carter of Sabine Hall, an ancestor of the Blackford family
on visit of Carter, health, and the use of medicine. No. 1445.
WAYLAND FAMILY. 1856-1875. 25 items. Gift of John W.
Wayland.
Letters of members of the Wayland family of Rockingham County, Va.,
written from Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa describing life there in the middle
nineteenth century. Confederate tax assessment for Rockingham
County, 1864, for "Tax in kind"; impressment of horses; activities of
Capt. John Winfield, C.S.A. Correspondence between J. K. Walls and
Myra Hanks Rudolph, 1924-1926, on ancestry of Nancy Hanks. Chief
correspondents are: Catherine, Mattias and William D. Bowman; John
and Philip P. A. Moore; Abraham, Hannah J., and Sarah Neff. No. 1422.
WHITE, CRAWFORD. 1796, Feb. 29. 1 MS. vol. Deposit.
Latin grammar lesson book, kept at Strasburg, Va. No. 1346.
WOOD, JAMES (1750-1813). 1794 Sep. 30. 1 ALS. Purchased
for the McGregor Library.
From the acting governor of Virginia to Brig. Gen. [Allen?] Jones in
regard to the Whiskey Rebellion. No. 1309.
WOODS, MICAJAH. 1874-1902. 18 MS. vols. Gift of Capt.
Robert H. Woods.
Letter books kept by Woods' law firm in Charlottesville. Personal
scrapbook, mostly newspaper clippings about reunions of Confederate
veterans, the University of Virginia, deaths of prominent citizens, and
other local news. Nos. 1379, 1444.
WORTHINGTON, HENRY HORACE (1804-1859). 1826, July 5.
1 ALS. Gift of Miss Gladys George.
To Reuben B. Hicks, Lewisville, Branch County, Va., from the University
of Virginia. Describes the University grounds and buildings in
detail; the curriculum; the death and funeral of Thomas Jefferson. No.
1368.
WYLLIE, JOHN COOK (1908- ) 1940. 1 typescript, 76 pp.
Deposit.
"Index to Poe's Criticisms in the Virginia Edition." [The Complete
Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Virginia Edition, edited by James A. Harrison.
17 vols. (New York, 1902.)] No. 1446.
YONGE, SAMUEL H. 1883-1938. ca. 1600 items, including 900
ALS., 250 photographs, blueprints, photostats, maps, drawings,
notebooks, personal memoranda, account books. Purchase.
Collections of material on the Yonge and Atkinson genealogies. Data
dealing with Yonge's career as a civil and marine engineer includes
Missouri River Commission surveys; James River Bridges; erosion control
project at Jamestown Island, with extensive data on archaeological
excavations of the early cities on the island and data on the Jamestown
Exposition of 1907; data on Williamsburg, Va.; aquacate mine in Costa
Rica. A paper on the Berber war of 1800-1805, and some correspondence
substantially represented are: Lutie R. Archer; Arthur T. Brice; Blair
and Catherine (Yonge) Easter; Hayne family; Catharine Humphreys;
Mrs. Charlotte (Yonge) Stringfellow; A. H. Weber; John Wrenshall, Jr.;
and Allen M. Yonge. No. 1299.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, TEXAS, RECORDS.
1917-1927. 17 items. Gift of R. N. Watts.
Miscellaneous mimeographed, printed, and typed material on Y.M.C.A.
activities conducted in Texas and by the office of the General Secretary.
Includes scrapbooks and folders of data on administration, building
campaigns, educational work, publicity efforts, religious work, etc. No.
1328.
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